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<strong>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS</strong>
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<p>45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea<br>
29 August - 1 September 2012</p>
<p>University of Stockholm<br>
<a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/">http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/</a><br>
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<p>The Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Department of
Linguistics of the University of Stockholm, Sweden, invite you
to submit abstracts for workshop, poster or general session
papers for the next annual meeting.</p>
<p>SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic
research. For more information on the previous editions, see <a
href="http://www.flf.vu.lt/sle2010/">SLE 2010</a> and <a
href="http://sle2011.cilap.es/">SLE 2011</a>.</p>
<h2>Deadlines</h2>
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<td>15 November 2011:</td>
<td>submission of workshop proposals (description + short
abstracts)</td>
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<td>15 December 2011:</td>
<td>notification of acceptance/rejection</td>
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<td>15 January 2012:</td>
<td>submission of all abstracts</td>
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<td>31 March 2012:</td>
<td>notification of acceptance</td>
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<h2>Plenary speakers</h2>
<ul>
<li>Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago de
Compostela)</li>
<li>Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice)</li>
<li>Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Andrej Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)</li>
<li>Catrin Norrby (University of Stockholm)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Local organizing Committee</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Chair</strong>: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm</li>
<li><strong>Secretary</strong>: Susanne Vejdemo</li>
<li><strong>Members</strong>: Fredrik Heinat, Jenny Larsson,
Matti Miestamo, Tomas Riad, Bernhard Wälchli</li>
</ul>
<h2>SLE Conference Management</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Treasurer</strong>: Dik Bakker (Lancaster)</li>
<li><strong>Conference manager</strong>: Bert Cornillie (Leuven)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Scientific Committee <span style="font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;"></span></h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Chair</strong>: Ursula Doleschal (Klagensfurt)</li>
<li><strong>Members</strong>: Niclas Abrahamsson (Stockholm),
Laura Alba (UNED, Madrid), Reili Argus (Tallinn), Peter
Arkadiev (Moscow), Dany Badran (Beirut), Valeria A. Belloro
(Querétaro), Paola Beninca' (Padua), Andrea L. Berez (Mānoa),
Marcella Bertuccelli (Pisa), Ermenegildo Bidese (Trento),
Kersti Börjars (Manchester), Anna Cardinaletti (Venice), Anne
Carlier (Lille 3), Michela Cennamo (Naples), Concepción
Company Company (UNAM, Mex), Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford),
Francisco J. Cortés Rodríguez (La Laguna), Denis Creissels
(Lyon), Michael Daniel (Moscow), Stuart Davis (Indiana),
Philippe De Brabanter (Paris 4), Helen de Hoop (Nijmegen),
Walter De Mulder (Antwerp), Liesbeth Degand
(Louvain-la-Neuve), Pierpaolo Di Carlo (New York), Dagmar
Divjak (Sheffield), Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Poznan),
Andrés Enrique-Arias (Balearic Islands), Victoria
Escandell-Vidal (UNED, Madrid), Malgorzata Fabiszak (Poznan),
Olga Fernández-Soriano (UAM, Madrid), Zygmunt Frajzyngier
(Boulder), Antonio García Gómez (Alcalá de Henares), Joaquin
Garrido (UC, Madrid), Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld), Spike Gildea
(Oregon), Alessandra Giorgi (Venice), Adele Goldberg
(Princeton), María de los Ángeles Gómez González (Santiago de
Compostela), Stefan Th. Gries (Santa Barbara), Britt-Louise
Gunnarsson (Uppsala), Rania Habib (Syracuse), Youssef Haddad
(Florida), Bjoern Hansen (Regensburg), Maj-Britt Mosegaard
Hansen (Manchester), Peter Harder (Copenhagen), Martin
Haspelmath (MPI, EVA Leipzig), Martin Hilpert (Freiburg),
Tuomas Huumo (Turku), Elly Ifantidou (Athens), Karol Janicki
(Bergen), Brian Joseph (Ohio State), Mikhail Kissine
(Bruxelles), Seppo Kittilä (Helsinki), Béatrice Lamiroy
(Leuven), Pierre Larrivée (Caen), Ritva Laury (Helsinki),
Elisabeth Leiss (Munich), Lucía Loureiro-Porto (the Balearic
Islands), Ricardo Maldonado (UNAM, Mex), Francesca Masini
(Bologna), Belén Méndez-Naya (Santiago de Compostela), Helle
Metslang (Tartu), Amina Mettouchi (Paris/CNRS), Katarzyna
Miechowicz-Mathiasen(Poznan), Matti Miestamo (Stockholm),
Edith Moravcsik (Milwaukee), Melissa Moyer (UA, Barcelona),
Henrik Høeg Müller (Copenhagen), Nicola Munaro (Venice), Heiko
Narrog (University), Nicole Nau (Poznan), Joakim Nivre
(Uppsala), Carita Paradis (Lund), Christer Platzack (Lund),
Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt), Lola Pons Rodríguez (Sevilla),
Anne Reboul (CNRS, Paris), Eric Reuland (Utrecht), Tomas Riad
(Paris 8 –Stockholm), Anna Roussou (Patras), Francisco Ruiz de
Mendoza (Logroño), Cinzia Russi (Austin), Helge Sandøy
(Bergen), Elena Seoane-Posse (Vigo), Petra Sleeman
(Amsterdam), Dejan Stosic (Artois), Cristina Suárez-Gómez (the
Balearic Islands), Yakov Testelets (Moscow), Catherine Travis
(Albuquerque), Dorien Van De Mieroop (Leuven), Antal Van den
Bosch (Nijmegen), Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg), Jef
Verschueren (Antwerp), Nigel Vincent (Manchester), Tuija
Virtanen (Åbo), Jacqueline Visconti (Genova), Ferdinand von
Mengden (Berlin), Søren Wichmann (MPI, EVA – Leipzig), Jacek
Witkos (Poznan), Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Zürich), Ruth
Wodak (Lancaster), Fernando Zúñiga (Zürich).</li>
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<h2>Guidelines for submission: workshop proposals and papers,
posters and general session papers</h2>
<p><strong>PROCEDURE</strong>. The deadline for the submission of
workshop proposals is 15 November 2011. The address for
submission is <a href="mailto:sle@arts.kuleuven.be">sle@arts.kuleuven.be</a>.
Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by 15
December 2011. After a workshop proposal has been accepted, the
convenors will be requested to invite their participants to
submit their full abstracts by 15 January 2012. These full
abstracts will be evaluated individually by the Scientific
Committee and the convenors.</p>
<p>The deadline for all abstracts (for the general session, the
poster session and the workshops) is 15 January 2012.
Notification of acceptance will be given by 31 March 2011.</p>
<p>Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (exclusive of references)
and should clearly state research questions, approach, method,
data and (expected) results. </p>
<p>Abstracts should be registered and submitted via the <a
href="http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/conference/admin/SubmitAbstractSLE">Submit
Abstract form</a> where you can upload an attachment. The
abstract should not mention the presenter(s) nor their
affiliations or addresses. Abstracts are preferably in Word or
.RTF format; if your abstract contains special symbols, please
include a pdf version as well.</p>
<p><strong>ORGANIZING A WORKSHOP</strong>. Whereas general session
papers can deal with any topic in linguistics, workshop papers
take into account the topic of the workshop proposal, and are
usually pre-selected by the workshop convenors.</p>
<p>Workshop proposals should contain:</p>
<ul>
<li>A 1000 word description of the topic (including the research
questions to be addressed) and</li>
<li>a (provisional) list of workshop participants and 300 word
abstracts of their papers.</li>
</ul>
<p>We encourage workshop convenors to distribute an open call for
papers on the LinguistList (announce your cfp as a session of
SLE 2012) and other fora in October 2011.</p>
<p>Since we want conference participants to be able to attend
individual workshop presentations, SLE workshops have to be
compatible with the main conference schedule. This means that
the format of the workshops must be organized around 30 minute
presentations (20 min. + 10 min. discussion). Workshops can
contain 10 or 15 slots (corresponding to 1 or 1.5 days); each
workshop ideally comprises:</p>
<ol>
<li>An introductory paper by the convenor(s) or by a key-note
speaker, which summarizes previous research, specifies the
approach(es) to be taken and sets the scope of the papers to
be presented.</li>
<li>Eight papers (1 day) or thirteen papers (1.5 day). </li>
<li>A slot for final discussion on the topics covered by the
papers, methodological issues and questions for future
research.</li>
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<p>Further details can be discussed with the <a
href="mailto:sle@arts.kuleuven.be">SLE Conference Manager</a>.</p>
<p><strong>POSTERS</strong>. The next SLE meeting will hold a
poster session of an hour for both senior and junior
researchers. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions
will be suspended during the poster session. Posters may be
remain available during the rest of the conference. The maximum
size of the poster is 1.10 m (vertical) x 1 m (horizontal). For
more information about how to make a good poster, click <a
href="http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/posterpres.html">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>MULTIPLE PAPERS</strong>. One person may submit a
single-authored abstract, a single-authored abstract and a
co-authored one (not as first author) or two co-authored
abstracts (only one as first author). Note that keynote papers
within workshops count as ordinary papers. Presentations will be
20 minutes plus 10 minutes question time.</p>
<p><strong>EVALUATION</strong>. Workshop proposals contain the
names of convenors and participants and will be evaluated and
ranked by the 5 officers of the SLE Scientific Committee. All
abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three referees.
Abstracts submitted to the general session and to the poster
session will be evaluated by three members of the Scientific
Committee. Workshop papers receive two evaluations by SC members
and one by the workshop convenors. The threshold for acceptance
is the same for general session, poster and workshop abstracts.
The acceptance of a paper depends on the quality of the
abstract. The acceptance rate of the previous conference was
68%.</p>
<h2>Prize for the best presentation and the best poster</h2>
<p>There will be a prize for the best oral presentation by a PhD
student, a prize for the best oral presentation by a postdoc and
a prize for the best poster.</p>
<p>For current purposes, PhD-students are students that have not
completed their PhD before the conference. Postdocs have
completed their PhD not earlier than January 2009. A nominated
paper may be co-authored; in such a case the nominee will be the
first author.</p>
<p>Applicants are invited to mark the button referring to the
prize when they register their abstract. On the basis of the
ranking of the abstracts, the Scientific Committee will set up
an internal shortlist with nominees for the prizes.</p>
<p>Members of the Editorial Board of <em>Folia Linguistica
(Historica)</em> and the Scientific Committee will decide who
will be awarded the first prize in each category, which consists
of 500 Euros, and the 2nd and 3rd prize, which is a three-year <a
href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/membership/join.php">SLE
membership</a>.</p>
<h2>Registration</h2>
<p>Registration will start from 1 April 2012 onwards. From this
year on, the SLE meeting will be a member only conference. That
is, all participants with a paper in the program will have to be
members. The early bird conference fee for members will be 170
Euros.</p>
<p>Become a member of the <a
href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/membership/join.php">Societas
Linguistica Europaea</a>.</p>
<h2>Social programme</h2>
<p>There will be a reception in the City Hall of Stockholm
(included in the registration fee) and a conference dinner. On
Saturday afternoon there will be a post-conference excursion.
Further information will be given in the second circular.</p>
<h2>How to get to Stockholm</h2>
<p>Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is well connected by train,
boat and airways. Stockholm is a key hub for flights in the
Baltic Sea Region, the European Union and the rest of the world.
It has three major airports - Arlanda (the primary gateway to
Sweden), Bromma (smaller, but close to central Stockholm) and
Skavsta (although 1,5 hours away by airport bus, this is the hub
for Ryanair, Europe's largest low cost airline). Train tickets
from continental Europe can be booked at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sl.se">http://www.sl.se</a>, and
all major travel agencies should have information on boat
schedules for the Baltic Sea Region.</p>
<h2>Important dates</h2>
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<td>15 November 2011:</td>
<td>deadlines for submission of workshop proposals</td>
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<td>15 January 2012:</td>
<td>deadline for submission of all abstracts</td>
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<td>31 March 2012:</td>
<td>notification of acceptance</td>
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<td>1 April 2012:</td>
<td>early registration starts</td>
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<td>1 June 2012:</td>
<td>registration (full fee)</td>
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<td>30 June 2012:</td>
<td>registration closed for participants with a paper</td>
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<td>20 August 2012:</td>
<td>registration closed</td>
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<h2>Contact</h2>
<h3>SLE 2012 Local organizing committee</h3>
<p>Susanne Vejdemo (Secretary)<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:sle2012@ling.su.se">sle2012@ling.su.se</a>
</p>
<h3>SLE conference manager</h3>
<p>Bert Cornillie<br>
<a href="mailto:sle@arts.kuleuven.be">sle@arts.kuleuven.be</a></p>
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Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Office: Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm university, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Home: Västerled 166, 167 72, Bromma, Sweden
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se">tamm@ling.su.se</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ling.su.se/tamm">http://www.ling.su.se/tamm</a>
tel.: +46-8-16 26 20 (office), +46-8-26 90 91 (home)</pre>
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